Mary Wollstonecraft — "I have no other wish than to live in peace and obscurity."
I have no other wish than to live in peace and obscurity.
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"The most perfect human being is the one who has the most freedom."
"It is a happy thing for women, that there is a kind of fashion in their ideas, as well as in their dress."
"It is a significant indication of the present state of society, that the greater part of the women, who have any independence of mind, are found in the lower classes."
"It is a melancholy reflection that the most important branch of education is often the most neglected."
"Security is the very first characteristic of happiness."
About Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
English writer and proto-feminist philosopher whose A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is the founding text of modern feminist theory. Closely associated with Thomas Paine (Rights of Man co-conspirator and revolutionary contemporary) and William Godwin (her husband and philosopher of anarchism). For an intellectual contrast, see Edmund Burke, Anglo-Irish conservative and parliamentarian — Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) was the explicit target of Wollstonecraft's first book — A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), written in the weeks after Burke's appeared. She extended the argument to women in her second Vindication two years later. Burke's tradition-and-prescription conservatism is the worldview Wollstonecraft's career was structured against.